What do you do with credit card offers you recieve in the mail?
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I tear them apart without even opening them... I have bad credit... like really bad credit- and any credit company offering me a card has to be up to something.
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Shred them. I've tried writing or calling to be taken off the mailing list, but the companies resurface under different names, so that was pointless.
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Send them back to the company in their pre-paid envelope, with "remove me from your mailing list" written in red Sharpie across the application. Works every time.
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I've a cute little thing called "file 'F'". Or what most people call a shredder that shreds plastic as well as paper. Credit Card companies send them out to millions. Their game is "RECURRING REVINUE". They have proven over and again that they can get people to buy a $200.00 lamp, and get payments for 30 years. It's a scam. Even if you think you will pay it off, don't do business with people like that. If you pick up a snake, don't be surprised when you get bit. Whatever you do, DO NOT TOSS THEM IN THE TRASH. There are people that will go through your rubbish just so they can get such a thing. They'll steal your identity, and run up charges you will never be able to pay off. Shred it, burn it, put it in battery acid, but DO NOT JUST THROW IT AWAY, and do not use it.
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straight in the bin. I have enough cards in my wallet, and the family has enough debt as it is. we don't need any more ways to increase it.
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I put them straight into the recycling bin. I prefer the ones that show that they are credit card offers on the outside, as that saves me the effort of opening them. Recycling them makes me feel slightly better about the tremendous waste of paper that these b*******s are causing.
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I shred them into a basket, when the basket is full I burn it, Im kinda scared of identity theft, it just happened to my roommate, cant be too careful
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I bin themiv got 2 already and they get enough money out of me as it is!!!!LOl
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Shred Them! Paper Shredders should be something everyone should have at home, like a DVD player or a TV. They are cheap and important in the fight against identity theft. We should shred every significant document that we want to destroy.
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i usually leave them in the mail box until i cant get my real mail delivered to it then throw them all out together
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In this day and age I shred evcerything that comes offering loans and cards. They are not things that can be safely put into the rubbish.
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I use them as drink coasters, then trash them.
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Burn them!
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cut them up and chuck 'em in the garbage.
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I rip them up, so people can't send them in and take credit cards out in my name. Then I usually put half in one garbage and half in another so all of the information isn't in one spot, in case someone has lots of times on their hands to put it back together. I tend to do that with all of my important things that need to be disposed of.
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I have actually never received one of these...Lucky me I guess? Or maybe I move around too much over the past couple years...
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I cut them into guitar picks.
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Take naked photos of myself and send them to the company who mailed the offers. That usually makes them disappear from my letterbox.
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Destroy them into pieces. I used to have a shredder at home, but it went dead. Now I make sure everything is shred into pieces.
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I don't get them anymore. I wonder why. Haven't received one in many years.
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I am now sending them back to them with their postage paid return envelope maybe after they have to pay the 41 cents a few times they will get the hint.
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You use that really really fun thing in the corner of your room. where you stick the paper in the little slot thingy, and then it makes that cool "zoom zoom" noise!
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If you order a credit report, it will show all the companies that have your name on their mailing lists with their addresses and phone numbers.. You can call or send them letters demanding to be taken off their mailing list. Their are also companies that will stop your junk mail and plant trees every month in your name.. I think it's like 10bucks/month, pretty kewl service if you ask me.
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I feed my shredder.
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Shredder unless they provide a postage paid return envelope in which case I fill with pennies and ask to be removed from their list.
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tore it off and threw it in the trash.
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I throw them in with the cat litter if someone wants to go get them then more power to them.
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I shred up the offer - stick it in the pre-paid envelope and mail it back to them.
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I laugh and toss them. Nobody really wants to give me a credit card. Any time I have accualy applied they have decided to think better of it.
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I rip them up and throw them in the garbage. Don't trust recycling for stuff like that.
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I tried lining the litter box with them, but the cat won't S**T in there, he says it would be redundant;)
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If there is a pre-paid return address envelope I always return it--empty.
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You guys actually get credit card solicitations? I used to get 'em all the time, even when I had no credit history. I removed my name from the credit bureaus' list at www.optoutprescreen.com and after about 3 or 4 months, I didn't even get solicitations from Capital One. I still got one or two PER YEAR from businesses I do business with (AAA was one), but it was nice to not have the junk mail.
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I stick them in another credit card company's reply envelope and send them in without filling anything out! I hate junk mail.
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turn it into a frisbie in the trash as I go by.
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You know... I have special trashbag)))
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i shred them....then i have them blessed and exorsized...can never be to careful.....
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Throw them in the bin.
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Recycle them
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I do the same thing. I hate junk mail; however, a friend of mine who works for the Post Office said that if it were not for junk mail, out postage stamps would be about a dollar higher!
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Shred them.
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Use them as drink coasters on my desk, then toss them in the trash.
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Tear them up, throw them away.
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its all garbage . it only good to have one! who care if you gotta have it .. no one does!!!
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shred, and make sure my name or invite # isn't on them
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Shred them.
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i tear them up and throw them in the trash.
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I used to throw them away, but then I read something somewhere about how to get back at the companies that send you junk mail. It said to mail back the response envelope (with the prepaid postage) empty with nothing in it. Then the company that sent you the junk mail has to pay the postage on an empty envelope. Payback!
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They go through a cross cut shredder that makes confetti out of them.
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tear those suckers up!
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... Dear Dumpster ...
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Immediately rip them apart and throw them in the trash.
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They make great kindling for the fire place.
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Throw them away.
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Trash them.
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remove my name and mail the garbage back to them..it's postage free..they can get rid of it.
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It all depends if you are in Debt! If you are very good with your money why not take a look at any offers that came with the card. Get a card with 0% for 6 or 12mths, When that offer has expired transfer to another card which also offers 0% interest. Try to make over the minimum payment.
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I throw them away
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I rip them up and stuff them into the free postage paid envelope and mail them back without my name on anything.
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I don't bother sending it back to them, I just mail the postage paid envelope back to them. They have to pay for nothing.
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I fill them out and send them in. Then, I get a letter a few weeks later that says. "Hey, about that card. Well we were kidding"
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Shred them in the paper shredder! I think I get like two everyday. :D
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We simply recycle all the junk-mail we get, including credit card offers.
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I shred them, them split up the shredded stuff into two different trash bags.
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Throw them away. I already have all the cards I need and it is annoying that they send them.
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